If what is taken to matter most is the power of decision-making, and, as part of that, the power to call executive office-holders to account by judicial or other means, then the first democracy properly so called anywhere in the world was that of Athens, brought it into being in stages during the approximately half-century between circa 508 and 462 BC. Aristotle in his Politics treatise of circa 330 BC, refers to some 1,000 separate political entities in Hellas (the Greek world) between about 500 and 300 BC of those, perhaps a quarter, perhaps as many as half at one time or another within those two centuries experienced some form of democracy. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"110582","attributes":{"alt":"representation ","class":"media-image","height":"699","style":"width: 524px; height: 699px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"524"}}]] The relief representation
